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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous

So does this work in any other industry? I work in healthcare and patients showed up today and all doctors and nurses were present. Their children were home too with no school. They didn’t ask to bring kids to work or make excuses not to work today. Stop the coddling of teachers. If you are a working professional, you need to have plans for childcare. Period!
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The schools closed because of the weather report, which ended up being wrong. They closed to keep walkers and bus riders safe, because they thought it was going to snow. At the point when APS had to make the decision--5 pm the night before--they would not have known what teachers would be out, or if they were out for COVID or whatever. Stop blaming everything on the teachers, or there will be no teachers left to teach your kids.[/quote]

They SAID they were closing due to the forecast. [b] They don't HAVE to make that call the night before. [/b]Given the forecast originally timed the actual weather for early morning (5 or so?), they could have waited to see if it was actually coming, given the weather forecasts were changing the night before after the early cancellation call was already made.

Nevertheless, APS made the call shortly after FFX made its call.  And last week's "weather" closure was actually due to the teacher situation - FCPS closed and many Arlington teachers live in FFX Co, etc.  APS just didn't state that outright at the beginning.[/quote]

They don't, in theory, have to make the call the night before. They used to make the call by 5am but parents bit**ed about that so much, that they needed advance notice to plan, that the district committed to making the call the day before. Which ups the chance that it will be a bad call. And then parents complain about that. No way to make everyone happy.[/quote]

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